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First steps with Pandora FMS

Official start-up guide to get the most out of Pandora FMS, from installation to report generation. If you do not wish to delve into the manual, this is your guide.

1. Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to introduce Pandora FMS in a quick and concise way to someone who i...

2. Basic Architecture

Pandora FMS Servers The Servers are integrated into a single application, generically called PFM...

3. Installation

Cloud installation (online) The term "Cloud provider" (or simply "Cloud") is used to describe th...

4. Detecting and monitoring new systems with Discovery

The Pandora FMS Discovery tool provides a set of features to simplify monitoring through wizards,...

5. Detecting and monitoring network and Windows devices with Discovery

Let's now look at a discovery task that is more complex than the previous one, this time config...

6. Network device monitoring through SNMP Interface Wizard

To perform this type of monitoring, it is essential that SNMP is configured on the remote devic...

7. Network device remote monitoring

Monitoring through network modules. TCP Service In this case, monitoring will be added to verify...

8. Web Monitoring

For this final example, we will use the Pandora FMS web server component, which is used for basic...

9. Remote Server Monitoring

Pandora FMS also offers us the possibility to monitor computers using Linux® or MS Windows® opera...

10. Server Monitoring through EndPoints

MS Windows® The first step is to download the EndPoint installer for MS Windows®. To do this, ...

11. Module Advanced Settings

In this section, we will see how to configure some of a module's advanced options, as well as def...

12. How to use Pandora FMS plugins

Plugins allow Pandora FMS to obtain information that requires complex processing or the use of co...

13. Email Alert

In Pandora FMS, alerts are assigned to specific modules of an agent. When said module enters a pa...

14. Create a Custom Report

Pandora FMS offers us the possibility of visualizing monitored data in a personalized way through...

15. Visual Console Creation

Creating a Parent Visual Console In this first map, we are going to add the status of several ag...

16. Dashboard creation

A Dashboard is a Pandora FMS feature that allows each user to build their own monitoring page. Mo...

17. Inventory

Pandora FMS allows you to maintain an inventory of the devices monitored by Pandora FMS. It is po...

18. Events

An Event is everything that happens within the system; from the creation of a module to a user lo...

19. Working with Policies in Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS offers us the possibility to work with the module and alert creation and management t...

20. Next Steps

This guide does not cover them but you may be interested: Network Maps. Monitoring with SNMP ...

21. Where to Look if Problems Arise?

In the face of any problem, Pandora FMS offers different tools to take action: Diagnostic to...

22. Support

Pandora FMS Forum The forum is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to everyone; you can create an...